fatally/fundamentally/deeply etc flawed• It was of course also deeply flawed.• Like the polltax, this property tax is deeply flawed.• On closer inspection, however, they turn out to be deeply flawed.• The result is a deeply flawed book in many ways, though useful, to a limitedextent, in others.• But he failed to allayfears that he will be a fatally flawedcandidate when pitted against PresidentBush next autumn.• Domesday was an attractive but deeply flawedconcept.• The second year went up in the flames of a deeply flawed health-care reform.• Both events revealed not only deepdivisions among Member States, but also fundamentally flawedpolicies.
From Longman Business Dictionary
flawedflawed /flɔːdflɒːd/adjectiveadj
having a mistake or weakness
The plane crashed as a result of a flawed engine fan disk.
Outside experts warned the study could be deeply flawed.
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, seem有缺陷;似乎有缺陷▸➤remain仍有缺陷ADVERB➤badly, deeply, highly, hopelessly, seriously有嚴重缺陷;有無可救藥的缺陷➤fatally有致命缺陷◇a series of fatally flawed judgements一系列有致命缺陷的判斷➤fundamentally有根本性缺陷➤inherently有內在缺陷▸➤slightly, somewhat略有瑕疵▸➤conceptually, methodologically概念上/方法上有缺陷◇The study was methodologically flawed.這項研究在方法上有缺陷。